Everyone loves handles on big PET bottles. PET plastic is beautifully crystal clear and 100% recyclable. A strong, comfortable handle to make the pour easier on a heavy, large format PET bottle is the icing on the cake for consumers. This is especially true in food...
Recently I’ve been asked about the use of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) in BottleOne PET containers. PCR is a subset of rPET, which is recycled PET. PCR comes from bottle recovery programs such as curbside recycling and bottle deposit channels. Here are my...
If you didn’t tune into PETnology’s Pack Passion Week 2022, you missed a good one. Even though I like the personal touch of being at the conference, I enjoyed watching the presentations from my desk. SIPA’s presentation, by Paolo De Nardi and Pablo Fiorentini, was my...
Before I get into the specifics of the new PET packaging sensation, BottleOne, I want to take you back a few years. For those of you old enough to remember the influential music critic, Jon Landau, when he first saw Bruce Springsteen in Cambridge back in 1975, he...
If you are a regular reader of our blog, you know we are passionate about our BottleOne PET bottles. BottleOne is an affordable large capacity, standard grade PET bottle with an integrated PET handle. Our unique handle is integrated and molded into the preform (it is...
Sustainability practices continue to gain momentum as this consumer trend rises in popularity. For CPGs, sustainable business practices reflect more than just a conscientious way of doing business. They represent the values we have as consumers for sustaining the...
The dairy industry continues to be in a state of disruption. Competition increases while the growth forecasts decrease. Sluggish growth as a result of the pandemic adds to the complexity of an already strained market. Now more than ever, it is important for companies...
“PET container” and “drone deliverable” aren’t phrases you normally see together in a headline. Recently I published a post with 4 consumer trends reshaping the dairy industry. One of those 4 cornerstone trends is ecommerce. As we’ve seen during the current crisis,...
Hopefully by now you’ve heard of BottleOne’s revolutionary large format PET bottle with an integrated PET handle. The innovative technology incorporated into each bottle is shaking up the dairy industry and other large format, multi-serve packages. It’s also raising...
It has been quite a year for the dairy industry. The current crisis has caused consumers to change almost every aspect of their lives, including their shopping habits. Nobody knows if the recent changes in customer behavior will be permanent. We do know that consumers...
What are your thoughts regarding the plastic problem? You know what plastic problem I’m referring to - that island of garbage floating in the ocean. We at BottleOne are in the plastics business, so it is a fair question to ask. My answer is likely not the one you’re...
I remember reading about the BottleOne technology back in 2018. The article in Plastics News about this new PET bottle with an integrated PET handle originally caught my attention. It starts out: “For decades, Bill Duelge says, designers and packaging makers have been...
I had the opportunity to attend this year’s NPE in Orlando, where I saw some interesting developments that I think are worth sharing. Most of the OEMs and aftermarket suppliers we use at BottleOne exhibited at the show, and virtually every one of them had something...
As a primary package, BottleOne technology lives in a world of high stakes brand management and brand equity. Brand management is a very sophisticated, complex, and nuanced profession that supports and grows brand equity. Asking a brand manager to change their primary...
In Part One of my series on Innovation Motivation, I offered three different change motivations that drive innovation. These motivations; ambition, fear, and crisis, are universal and create a model useful when assessing the thought processes and behaviors of...